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Part 24 – Yakata

"How is the research it going?" Tara showed up behind Dawn that was sat on the chair searching on the net. Dawn looked at Tara and saw the strength in her face so she started talking.
"Hey Tara, ah… well I was looking for signals of demons attacks around San Francisco, and so far I haven't found any, apparently Willow was the only one that had that kinda of attack or actually any kind of weird stuff that had happen.
"We think that the demon might be looking for something or someone in particular…" Xander said holding a book, standing up in front of a shelf of books, and Buffy was sitting down with a book in her hands."
"It's too soon to tell, and the demon might be out there looking for his next victim yet." Buffy pointed.
"Or he is angry somewhere cause I stopped his ritual…" Tara said thoughtful.
"Ritual?" Dawn asked.
"Yeah, when I got there, he was whispering something…"
"You mean like a spell?" Buffy interrupted.
"Yeah, but before he could complete it I showed up and he ran away."
"We could try to find what kind of demon he is so we could know what the hell he did to Willow. Try to describe how the demon looked like…" Xander pointed as Tara sat beside Dawn and tried to remember every detail that she could.
"When I got there, he was behind Willow with his sword on her shoulder, Willow had her eyes closed, seamed like the only thing that was still holding her up was his sword…"
"Do you remember if the sword had anything in special?" Dawn asked.
"Hum, I can't remember very well, but it was a big sword, it was gold and silver … it wasn't much different from other swords but when it was touching Willow the sword was glowing, it had a weird color, kinda purple, and when I scared him and it was not touching Willow anymore the sword lost the bright and I sensed that I was interrupting something, that he couldn't finished, and I think if he did he would have killed Willow."
"Hum… hey take a look at this." Dawn showed a demon to Tara in the pc. It had a photo of a huge demon all cover with flakes on his dark body, his arms were huge like he could touch the floor without leaning and he was holding a sword just like just the one Tara had described. He didn't have a visible eye or a visible nose, the only thing it was able to see in that picture was a not so big mouth with red tooth coming out of his mouth.
Tara looking at the picture got an angry face, and Dawn asked looking at Tara's face "Is this the demon guy?"
"Yes." After a moment looking at the picture Tara continued "How could you find him this fast?"
"Yeah, Willow taught me that." Dawn answered with a happy face. And then looking at Tara eyes she said "Tara, we'll get her back."
"I know… so tell me more about that demon."
"Well…" Dawn looking at the laptop started to tell Tara all she could read from it. "Apparently it's a dealer demon, he makes deal with other demons and in exchange he receives powers and respect around his society, it's named Yakata."
"Yakata?" Buffy asked.
"Yeah… it's sounding…" Xander said.
"Japanese…" Dawn answered.
"Yeah…" Tara replied.
"Guys, can you find out more about that demon? Where does he lives, or where he might be, so I can find out how to get my Willow back?"
"Sure… where are you going?" Dawn asked while Tara was getting out of the library.
"I have a call to make…"

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"Hello?"
"Giles ? It's me, Tara." Tara replied seriously.
"Tara? Hello! How are you? Is something wrong?" Giles noticed.
"Hey Giles, I'm glad I could find you, yes, something happen to Willow… she's unconscious because of a demon…"
"What? Is she.."
"Yes, she's alive… I need you here, can you come please… can you come alone?"
"Of course sweetie… I'll be there as soon as possible, how did that happen? When Kennedy called me I figured what had happen, but…"
"No, it doesn't have anything to do with her, I think, but can you come?"
"Yes, Soon as possible I'll give my presence there."
"Giles?"
"Yes?"
"Thank you."
"Oh sure honey, take care."
"You too."

"Found anything?"
"Hey Tara, look we found the meaning of its name…" Dawn said pointing to the laptop.
"Yakata?"
"Yeah, it's really Japanese, it means palace, castle, something like mansion and stuff…I don't get it, why a demon would have such a stupid name like that…"
"Hang on, it's not stupid, it has to have a meaning…" Tara said.
"Why? There is no castle around here!" Xander said.
"At least not one that it's known… a mansion? Castle… everything sounds so huge… thanks Dawn, I'll work on that… what else did you find?"
"The demon, he already did some deals with other demons to get powers from other persons and in exchange he gets powers and respect around his… community I would say." Xander started to explain.
"Wait…. yeah, dealer…. Who would want Willow's powers?" Buffy asked.
"What?" Dawn asked.
"Willow's powers, is gone… it's not in her, I can sense it. She is old Willow, with no powers, but she doesn't have the strength to wake up cause she has no magic powers… and magic is a part of her now, she can't wake up until she's complete…" Tara was saying to the gang as she was thinking to herself. Magic, is part of who Willow is, no one can take that from Willow. It would be denying her identity.
"Tara? Are you ok?" Buffy asked.
"Yeah… ah, I called Giles, he said he would be here as soon as he could."
"What? You called him?" Buffy asked
"Yeah, I need him with me."
"Yeah, we need him here. It was good you called him." Buffy replied.